No more bullets, blood, ballots - Trench Town yearns for renewal as it turns back on political warfare

What Does July 4th Mean To Me? | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. America celebrates July 4, 1776 annually in the name of a tea-dumping party but leaves Black folks uninvited to the party. We don’t see our history or ourselves in the celebration. No, we can come to the nation’s Capital and enjoy the music and pageantry on the

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

COMMENTARY: The annexation of Palestinian territory is illegal | The Orlando Advocate

By Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire Contributor Let’s be clear and not try to fool one another. There is no basis in international law for the planned Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory. None. In some respects, this column could end right here. There is no further explanation

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Some JLP supporters in North East St Catherine against outside candidate

Some Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in North East St Catherine say they will reject any outside candidate selected by the party hierarchy to replace Leslie Campbell, who is not seeking re-election. The supporters told The Gleaner that they...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Hellshire vendors plead for beaches to stay open

Vendors and fisherfolk at Hellshire Beach in St Catherine are appealing to the Government to keep beaches open as they attempt to recover from the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Local Government and Community Development Desmond...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

CRH gets 2, 000 face masks from BPOs

WESTERN BUREAU: The Physiotherapy Department at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in Montego Bay got a much-needed gift on Tuesday when the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) presented the institution with 2,000 face masks and 50 face...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Big Mac Racism at McDonald’s - Milwaukee Community Journal

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Under the guise of reorganizing the way they manage the franchise system, the restaurant system across the country, they basically decimated the ranks of the African American leadership and employees,” Caruso said. “That to me is one of the most glaring act of intentional

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Malcolm X or Elijah Muhammad?

It's time to wake up and think for yourself. Man was made in God's image, not in the image of Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan, the Pope, T.D. Jakes, Creflo Dollar or any other man. Neither God nor Christ nor Muhammad nor Abraham nor Moses walked around as a copy of a man in a bowtie and selling

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Source: ThyBlackMan

KSAMC PNP minority wants foul-mouthed councillor punished

The People's National Party Minority Leader in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation Andrew Swaby has written to Mayor Delroy Williams threatening to move a resolution to investigate a councillor who, he says, has brought the local...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Celebrating the Journey of Black Music and its impact on American Culture

By H. Beecher Hicks, III, President CEO of the National Museum of African American Music Lately, the phrase ‘unprecedented times’ is so widely used that much of the world around us feels alien in comparison to our previous “normal.” Throughout the sanitation frenzy and social distancing

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

ZOSO to dismantle armed gangs in August Town

The dismantling of at least seven heavily armed gangs and the restoration of peace will be the major focus for the security forces in August Town, St Andrew, where a zone of special operation (ZOSO) was declared yesterday. The community, which is 4...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Local Pastor Grows Into Activist Role

SACRAMENTO They’d say it was all orchestrated by a higher power, but Sacramento’s Genesis Church family clearly played a major role in organizing the recent memorial service in Minneapolis, Minnesota for George Floyd. Floyd died on May 25 yelling out “I can’t breathe” as a White police officer

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Jamaican missionaries stranded in Panama, desperate to return home - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Observer) Four Jamaican missionaries stranded in Río Abajo, Panama, are seeking the Governments assistance to return to the island, as they struggle to stay afloat in the Spanish-speaking country despite support from the Jamaican consulate in Panama

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Ethiopia updating virus stats via WHO tallies as net outage remains | Africanews

Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate of COVID-19 case growth and infection of its

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Another shot at club football for ex-Reggae Boy - Voice Online

JOBI MCANUFF, a formerJamaican international, has signed a one-year extension asplayer/coach with London-based Leyton Orient.The... The post Another shot at club football for ex-Reggae Boy appeared first on Voice Online.

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Source: Britain's Favourite Black Newspaper - Voice Online

A missed opportunity - JTA president chides Government for not introducing school bus system for CXC students

Western Bureau: Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), is accusing the Government of failing to capitalise on a clear chance to introduce a national school bus system when schools were reopened on June 8 for students...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

FEEL GOOD | How plans for a glamorous matric dance changed to feeding hungry mouths | News24

It began as a plan for some serious glam. But, instead, a group of Cape Town scholars have donated every cent to their city's most needy.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019 | The Atlanta Voice

Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Former JDF soldiers offer solution to parking woes

THREE retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officers have combined their expertise in engineering and finance to provide what they insist is a viable solution to parking space problems plaguing motorists, especially in major urban centres, across Jamaica.This is a game-changer, a national development

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

I missed chance to be a dad, Jamaican George Williams reflects 50 year incarceration without trial - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was George Williams’ first Sunday as a free man, and his family made certain that he had a hearty dinner and experienced the warmth and togetherness of being at home in Ewarton, St

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Coronavirus: Government accused of keeping Leicester authorities in the dark over local outbreak - African American News Today - EIN News

. The death of an African-American man, George Floyd, while Minneapolis police custody of African-American man George Floyd near . The death of an African-American man, George Floyd, while Minneapolis police custody of African-American man George Floyd near

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Source: The Independent

Lena Horne limited series coming to Showtime - TheGrio

Showtime is developing a limited series about entertainment legend Lena Horne. According to Variety, the series is currently titled “Blackbird: Lena Horne... View Article The post Lena Horne limited series coming to Showtime appeared first on TheGrio.

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Source: theGrio

Police Superintendent Leon Clunis dies weeks after being shot

Police Superintendent Leon Clunis has died in hospital. Clunis was one of four cops who were shot during a police operation in Horizon Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine on June 12. Two other cops had died the same day.

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Three women killed, Rygin King hurt on bloody Sunday

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Popular hardcore dancehall artiste Rygin King was up to late yesterday evening in emergency surgery after he was one of three people shot — one fatally by unknown assailants in an incident in Westmoreland yesterday

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

In Japan, the Message of Anti-Racism Protests Fails to Hit Home

the police, Sierra Todd, an African-American undergraduate in Japan, organized a United States. A clip showed African-Americans as overly muscled, music-playing cultural appropriation, and left some African-Americans chagrined that more people in

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Source: Unpublished Black History

What its like to raise a Black athlete: seven Cal parents share their stories - African American News Today - EIN News

who’s multiracial (predominantly African-American and Polynesian) — was the (his mom is African-American, his dad is Filipino bringing lacrosse to predominantly African-American communities. The first is a theme with African-American males, particularly in

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Source: SFGATE: San Francisco Bay Area - News, Bay Area news, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Classifieds - SFGate

Hibernian Hall and VLA DANCE launch free classes - The Bay State Banner

On Monday, July 6, VLA DANCE and Hibernian Hall launched their “Summer Online Movement Series” providing classes for young people ages 10–15 and adults. The series runs through August 12 with a packed class schedule on both Monday and Wednesday each week. The classes are free and hosted on

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Source: The Bay State Banner

LOOTERS, LOWLIFES, AND LIARS | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Julianne Malveaux According to the Washington Post, the 45th President told 19,126 lies between his inauguration in 2017 and June 1, 2020. By now, the number has likely edged toward 20,000, as his Tulsa “rally” yielded dozens more. This President has no allegiance to the truth, but that’s no

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Defenders of Confederate monuments are afraid of real history - African American News Today - EIN News

; Wilson painted the enslavement of African Americans as a matter of and in public places, reminding African Americans that the Confederacy might have

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Source: Salon.com | News, Politics, Business, Technology & Culture

Jamaica: Hospital accused of negligence after woman plunges to death - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Observer) THE family of 43-year-old Carsha Johnson Sinclair, who died at the National Chest Hospital yesterday after plunging one storey through a garbage disposal chute from the ward on which she was admitted, is accusing the hospital of

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

British government expresses concern for human rights in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 July 2020: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has seen a letter written by the UK Minister for Africa James Duddridge, expressing serious concern about the treatment of Sierra Leone’s former Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Childrens Affairs Dr. Sylvia Olayinka

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

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